The Greatest Game Ever Played

17 Books All About Everyone's Real Favorite Child: Golf

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I live in a wonderful golf community so the tees and the greens are always on my mind.

In 2019, I had a goal of playing 100 rounds of golf and reading 100 books--I played 114 and read 104! This year’s goal is the same but as of November 4, I have played 125 already. This is retirement, my friends.

To many (including my daughter), golf is a silly game: knocking a ball into a hole with shouts of frustration and the smashing of clubs. To me, it is an escape from the realities of the world. My focus is on the shots I take and not my worries.

The group of girls I play with always praises how lucky we are that in the midst of the pandemic we can be out on the course breathing free--but also recognizes that our golf woes are first-world problems.

For another escape from reality and for all of my fellow linkladies and linksmen out there, here are 17 books of fiction and nonfiction all about the greatest game ever played.

Golfers Guide to Mental Fitness by John Weir

And if You Play Golf, You’re My Friend by Harvey Penick with Bob Shrake

Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book by Harvey Penick with Bob Shrake

The Game for a Lifetime by Harvey Penick with Bob Shrake

The Match by Mark Frost

The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost

The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf by Mark Frost

A Life Well-Played: My Stories by Arnold Palmer

Miracle on the Seventh Green by James Patterson

A Good Walk Spoiled:The Days and Nights of the PGA Tour by John Feinstein

The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton

The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods by Hank Haney